No one would disagree that bringing up children is not easy and there are no instant results. A small child can be capricious, nasty, and cause problems to others. Some parents try hard to teach the baby to behave.
But there are such moms and dads who need to take etiquette classes themselves.
“My cousin and her kid are staying with us for a while, this is what she usually gives her 5-year-old son for breakfast.”
- What’s on the iPad is unhealthier than what’s on the plate! © GaimanitePkat / Reddit
She didn’t even thank me.
A stranger’s child fell asleep while sitting on my lap yesterday.
It was cute, but his mom acted in a really weird way. The bus was full, so I offered the child to sit on my lap. It was a long ride, so he dozed off, and it was time for me to get off, and I lost his mom.
It turned out that she was sitting right behind me, but for some reason she didn’t pick up her son. When I told her I was getting off now, she sniggered, “I see!” – and reached for the child. I was shocked.
She didn’t thank me, and for some reason snapped at me. © Ward 6 / VK
“The sister-in-law changes her kid on the carpet, when a table is just 6 feet away.”
When a mother thinks she’s entitled:
A close friend brought me her 5-year-old and asked me to babysit him for an hour. The child is hyperactive, naughty and very spoiled.
So, the friend didn’t arrive after an hour or even two. I rang her to find out when she’d pick him up. And she said that she’d come only tomorrow, because she wanted to sleep and go shopping, and I had to help her and babysit her child.
I dressed her son, took him outside and texted her that if she didn’t come, I would leave him in the street. She immediately picked up her son, but took offense! © Podsushano / VK
“A woman and her 2-year-old sat next to me on a flight for 8 hours.”
“Kid poked me repeatedly with their cutlery from the in-flight meal, spilled water on me, screamed and cried the entire flight.
The mother made no attempts to settle her child, put her child’s trash on my eating tray (before she tossed it on the ground), demanded that the staff turn the AC off for the plane as the ‘AC is harmful to her and her child.'”
